Authorities investigate Sept. 12 after four bodies were found in a vehicle on Renegade Mountain. Jacob Allen Bennett and his girlfriend, Brittany Lina Yvonn Moser, have been charged in the deaths.

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Brian Haas
| The Tennessean

Parole officers didn't worry about Jacob Allen Bennett blowing off the terms of his release from prison until four bodies turned up in Renegade Mountain.

They didn't revoke the longtime felon's parole when he flunked a drug test in April - his second month out of prison. They let it slide when he didn't pay his court-ordered fees. And they didn't even look for him when he went absent in August, a month before he would be hauled in as a suspect in a quadruple homicide.

"I asked her to have him contact me to discuss this violation issue," a parole officer wrote in Bennett's parole file Aug. 22 after ...